Wall-paper exhibitor



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' A. F. PAYNE.

- WALL PAPER EXHIBITOR. No. 459,567. Patented Sept. 15, 1891.

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) A.F.PAYNB.' WALL PAPER EXHIBITOR.

No. 459,567. Patented Sept-15, 1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUSTUS F. PAYNE, OF HAMILTON, NEIV YORK.

WALL-PAPER EXHIBITOR.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 459,567, dated September 15, 1891.

I Application filed February 24, 1891. Serial No. 382,348. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS F. PAYNE, of Hamilton, in the county of Madison and State of New York, have invented certain new and a part of this specification, and in which simiof construction.

lar letters of reference refer to corresponding parts in the several views, Figure 1 shows a front elevation of my exhibitor clo sed. .Fig. 2 shows aside elevation open. Fig. 3 shows a rear view closed. Fig. 4 shows a side elevation partially open. Fig. 5 shows a portion of the device, including a section of parts, taken on line C D of Fig. 7. Fig. 6 shows a partial cross-section taken on line A B of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 shows a portion of the device in. detail. Fig. 8 shows an extension attachment hereinafter more fully explained. Fig. 9 shows an end elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 8, as seen from the right. Figs. 10 and 11 show details Fig. 12 shows a corresponding position to Fig. 2 with the shelf-piece more elevated.

In constructing my device I provide an exhibitor-body l with retaining-walls 2 2 along each side, forming the sides of the exhibitorface. At the upper end of the exhibitor-body is provided an inlaid piece, preferably of metal 3, in which piece 3 are secured projecting pins-1t 1 and screw-threaded openings for receiving thumb-screw clamps 5 5. Across the top of the exhibitor-body extends a retainer 6, composed of parts 6 and 6 and of a thickness equal to the length of pins 4:, and having recesses 6 to receive the pins at. On the piece is provided a bearing 6 for connecting hinge 7, which hinge is preferably bent outward, as shown, and serves to connect shelf-piece S to the body portion of the device.

To the back of the exhibitor-bodyis hinged at 9 a supporting-frame 10, having legs substantially of the length of the exhibitor, and when extended adapted, in connection with the body, to set up in an A shape. To the frame 10 is hinged an arm 11, having an extension portion 11' hinged to its swinging end, and which arm 11 or extension 11 are adapted to engage behind a stop 12 on the shelf-piece 8 and support it in open position, either substantially horizontal, as shown in Fig. 2, or at an angle. (Shown inFig. 12.) To the free or swinging end of the shelf-piece8 is secureda flap or curtain 13, adapted to cover and protect the samples on the board when the de vice is folded. 14 is also a flap secured to piece 6, and adapted to close the open space between the piece 8 in closed position and the upper end of the device, thus protecting the upper ends of the samples.

On the side of the exhibitor-body is pro vided a pair of eyes 15 15, adapted to receive hooks 16 16, fixed in a portion of the device, which, for convenience in describing, we will call the exhibitor attachment 17. The exhibitor attachment consists of a frame of a height equal to the length of the exhibit0rbody and of a length preferably equal to three rolls of wall-paper, and is provided with a movable leg 18, hinged to the back of the attachment at 19. At the top the attachment is provided with a series of curved hooks 20, projecting from the rear of the device and curving upward in suitable position to receive a roll of wall-paper. I construct these hooks 20 of a doubled and bent wire inserted at the forked end in the single hole of the exhibitor-frame; but this particular construction is not essential.

The device is used substantially as follows: With the device lying upon its back on a table, the clamping-piece 6 being detached by removing thumb-screws 5, the parts 6 and 8 are removed, and the samples, (wall-paper,) of substantially the length of the device, are filed upon the pins 4. Those intended for ceilings may be filed with their backs to the front. The clamp 6 is then applied, and by means of thumb-screws 5 made to bind the samples to the back. In exhibiting, the device is set up as shown in Figs. 2 or 3 and 8 and 9, and the samples are shown by turning them from the face of the device over on the of the .parts 17, the rolls being held by hooks 20, and the surface appears in combination with what may be upon the front of the exhibitor proper. By turning the shelf-piece 8 over onto the face of the exhibitor when not in use the samples thereon are covered and protected by the piece 8 and flaps 13 and 14, and by allowing the frame 10 to close up tothe back and detaching the part 17 the device becomes compact and readily portable.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, in a wall-paper exhibitor, of the exhibitor-body 1, having retaining walls or rims 2, supporting-legs 10, the folding shelf 8, the paper-clamp 6, having projecting pins, the hinge 7, connecting the shelf 8 to the clamp-piece 6, and the jointed supporting-arm 11, adapted to support the shelf 8 in' horizontal and inclined position, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a wallpaper-sample exhibiting device, of the exhibitor-body having projecting pins at its upper end, the sample-clamp for securing the samples on the pin, the supporting-frame, and the shelf -piece hinged by hinges 7 to the clamping-piece and adapted to turn from its position as a shelf onto the samples on the face of the exhibitor, and the extension or attachment removably secured by hooks to the side of the exhibitor and extending in the same plane with the face thereof, and the hooks for sup porting rolls of paper on the attachment, all combined substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In witness whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AUGUSTUS F. PAYNE. lVitnesses:

JOHN J. TAYLOR, WM. M. WEST. 

